FierceMarkets Announces Winners of Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition
WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) November 17, 2016 -- FierceMarkets (http://www.fiercemarkets.com) today announced the winners of its annual Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition. The goal of the program is to identify and showcase the design and development of this year’s most groundbreaking broadband voice, video and data solutions; to recognize and reward the best and brightest operators, service providers and vendors for exemplifying what innovation means today; and to take stock of what’s shaping our industry, both today and going forward.
Kevin Gray, Publisher of FierceTelecom, FierceCable and FierceWireless, says, “We’re so pleased with the response to this year’s program. Our finalists and winners exhibit the remarkable level of innovation that we’ve come to expect from our applicants. The Fierce Innovation Awards create a platform which allows companies to stand out from the crowd, and we couldn’t be more proud of its success.”
Winners were announced across 29 distinct categories. The judges ultimately selected 5 companies and their solutions from the pool of individual category winners for special recognition as “Best in Show” winners.
Honorees were selected by a distinguished panel of judges which included:
MATTIAS FRIDSTRÖM, Vice President & Head of Technology, TeliaSonera International Carrier; ROB HOWALD, Vice President, Network Architecture Comcast; RON MARQUARDT, PH.D., Vice President of Technology, Innovation & Architecture, Sprint
DAVID A. MAYO, Senior Vice President Technology, T-Mobile USA; DAN MURPHY, Director, Verizon Innovation Program; MICHAEL WESTON, Senior Executive, Verizon.
Judges evaluated submissions based on Effectiveness, Ease of Use/ ROI, True Innovation and End-User Impact.
The 2016 Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition Winners are:
Wireless Networks Group
Category: Next-Gen Deployment
Winner: Core Network Dynamics for OpenEPC
Category: Spectrum Efficiency
Winner: Federated Wireless for CINQ XP
Category: Backhaul
Winner: CBNL for VectaStar point-to-point millimeter wave
Category: Small Cells/HetNet
Winner: Katherin for Kathrein Street Connect
Category: Rural Wireless
Winner: DragonWave for Harmony Enhanced MC
Category: Next-Gen Voice Services
Winner: Verizon for VVQ-Verizon VoLTE/VoWiFi Quality
Category: Wi-Fi and Traffic Offload
Winner: Aptilo Networks for Aptilo Service Management Platform (SMP)
Category: Smart Cities
Winner: Alpha Technologies for AlphaGateway SMG
Wireline Networks Group
Category: Last Mile/Edge/Access
Winner: Global Capacity for Global Capacity’s One Marketplace Platform
Category: Core Networking
Winner: Acacia Communications for CFP-DCO Module
Category: Managed Services
Winner: ADTRAN for ProCloud Managed Services Portfolio
Category: Data Centers
Winner: Vigilent for Dynamic Cooling Management System
Category: Business Services
Winner: Zipwhip for Zipwhip
Pay-TV and Online Video Group
Category: Set-Tops and Gateways
Winner: Technicolor for Skipper
Category: Multiscreen Delivery
Winner: Net Insights AB for Sye
Category: OTT Services
Winner: Livestream for Livestream OTT Services/ Livestream as Platform
Category: Next-Gen Video Services
Winner: Harmonic for Electra™ VS Convergent Video System
Category: Digital Media and OTT Monetization
Winner: CSG International for Ascendon
Category: Encoding/Transcoding
Winner: Ericsson for Ericsson E2E UHD Live Broadcast Ecosystem HEVC Card
Category: Advanced Advertising
Winner: Placemedia for Placemedia supply-side platform
Business Transformation Management Group
Category: BSS/OSS
Winner: UXP Systems for User Lifecycle Management (ULM) Platform
Category: Service Orchestration and Delivery
Winner: ItsOn, Inc. for ItsOn Platform
Category: Network Test and Measurement
Winner: Accedian for SkyLIGHT
Category: Customer Engagement
Winner: Netcracker Technology for Netcracker Omni-channel Customer Experience Management
Category: Network and Device Security
Winner: Hiya for Hiya Cloud
Category: Conditional Access, Digital Rights Management and Authentication
Winner: NAGRA for NAGRA anyCAST CONNECT
Category: SDN/NFV
Winner: Viptela for Viptela SD-WAN Platform
Category: Cloud Services
Winner: Sports 1 Marketing for Aggregated Marketing Platform
The 2016 Fierce Innovation Awards: Telecom Edition Best in Show Winners are:
Category: Best Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation:
Winner: Alpha Technologies for AlphaGateway SMG
Category: Best ‘Green’ Installation or App
Winner: Vigilent for Dynamic Cooling Management System
Category: Best Cost Center Innovation
Winner: CBNL for VectaStar point-to-point millimeter wave
Category: Best Service Agility Solution
Winner: Net Insights AB for Sye
Category: Best Network Transformation Platform
Winner: Kathrein for Kathrein Street Connect
Honoring the most innovative product among all entries, and the product most likely to positively and dramatically affect service-provider business models across the board –
Category: The Judges’ Choice Award Winner:
Kathrein for Kathrein Street Connect
More detailed information about each of the winners can be found in a supplementary Innovation Report published in conjunction with the awards program. To download the report, click here.
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Kelly Stone, FierceMarkets, http://www.fiercemarkets.com, +1 2024965557, [email protected]
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